United States v. 46,672.96 Acres of Land, More or Less, Situate in Dona Ana, Counties, State of New Mexico, and Andy Henderson, United States of America v. 9,101.24 Acres of Land, More or Less, Situate in Sierra and Otero Counties, State of New Mexico, and Loyd Crockett, United States of America v. 40,021.64 Acres of Land, More or Less, Situate in Dona Ana, Counties, State of New Mexico, and Genevieve Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 13 · 1975
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably United States v. Acres of Land More or Less in County of Monroe State of R (1979), Hughes v. Consol-Pennsylvania Coal Co. (1991)
9 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Miller · Difronzo v. United States · United States v. Fuller · United States v. Sowards · Wilson v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Highest and best use contemplates a present existing use or one reasonably likely to take place in the near future, whereby availability of this future use would have affected the market price.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“such payments are in the nature of compromise to avoid the expense and uncertainty of litigation and are not fair indications of market value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.